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Emine Yilmaz is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), and an EPSRC Fellow. She is also a faculty fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, an ELLIS fellow, and an Amazon Scholar working with the Alexa Shopping team. She leads the Web Intelligence Group at UCL's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and co-founded Humanloop, a UCL spinout company.
Her research focuses on information retrieval and natural language processing, leveraging machine learning, statistics, and information theory. She has authored over 150 papers, with significant contributions to conversational search, synthetic data evaluation, and AI ethics. Her work is funded by EU Horizon 2020, EPSRC, Google, and Bloomberg.
Key awards include the Karen Sparck Jones Award and Google/Bloomberg research awards. She serves as co-editor-in-chief for the Information Retrieval Journal and holds editorial roles in AI Journal and ACM Transactions on Information Systems. She has organized major conferences like ACM SIGIR and TREC Deep Learning Track since 2019.
Current research includes proactive conversational systems, bias analysis in synthetic data, and large language model evaluation. She advises numerous PhD students and postdocs, with notable alumni holding faculty and research roles globally.
